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flummery

[fluhm-uh-ree] / ˈflʌm ə ri /






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And it raises the question of whether a brand can succeed simply by presenting the goods, without flummery.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2021

Anything we could do to stop this flummery from clogging our airwaves, inboxes and video streams would probably be worse than the problem itself.

From Fox News Jun. 12, 2020

His career in flummery and flimflam was launched when he left reform school at age 14 to work as a Coney Island pitchman, then joined Dr. W.H.

From Washington Post Aug. 8, 2018

Ultimately, Dynamo's brand of streetbound trickery isn't about eloquence or flummery.

From The Guardian Jul. 6, 2013

It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Dishes included white soup, partridge pie and jelly desserts or flummeries.

From BBC May 10, 2013

It would have been filled with fruit, flummeries or blancmanges, biscuits, gateaux, jellies and ice cream.

From BBC May 10, 2013

There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The flattery, handholding and creative fudgery that are at the heart of diplomacy are the very sort of fancy-pants flummeries that the President abhors.

From Time Magazine Archive

She says I've got to have one, and she insists on sewing at home on all sorts of fool flummeries for some dressmaker so I can.

From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Bassett, Sara Ware




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